A dinuclear copper(II) complex [Cu2L2](ClO4)2 derived from 2,6-bis(aminomethyl)-4-methylphenol (HL)

The dinuclear copper(II) complex of 2,6-bis(aminomethyl)-4-methylphenol (HL), bis[μ-2,6-bis(aminomethyl)-4-methylphenolato-1κN,1:2κ 2 O,2κN']dicopper(II) diperchlorate, [Cu 2 (C 9 H 13 N 2 O) 2 ](ClO 4 ) 2 , has been synthesized and its structure determined. The title complex is crystallographically centrosymmetric about the midpoint of the Cu...Cu separation [3.013 (1) A] and consists of two distorted square-pyramidal copper(II) centres bridged via phenoxide O atoms. Each Cu atom is coordinated (type 4+1) by two bridging O atoms, two secondary amine N atoms and, weakly, by one O atom of a symmetry-related perchlorate ion occupying the apical coordination site